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On 10-Nov-07, at 4:27 PM, Anthony Sorace wrote:
The cheapest ATI card I could find on their website has 128MB of DDR.
The lowest of NVidia's modern line comes with 256MB. Clock speeds are
in the 400Mhz range and go up from there. You can get GPUs past the
Ghz mark and within spitting distance of the GB mark.
I think the days of small graphics cards were behind us a few years
ago now.
Anthony
It must be a matter of expectations - the apps I work with take that
256MB of ram, eat it for breakfast, and ask for more. The
performance implications of round trips over the bus to main memory
to swap/page are too much for me to put up with.
But then, I'm rendering substantial 3-D environments; for desktop eye-
candy, it's more than enough.
Paul
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